Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj rebel over-you giving To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real expression giving Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj comes-and-goes law mind When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom inspirational love If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagine desire world The world you think of is in your own mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind world thinking The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj dangerous reality world There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj sunrise dimensions self All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real self sex My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj fighting giving thinking Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom fun thinking Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual memories Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj decision wisdom spiritual Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagination names reality Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj whatever-happens-happens creator perceive The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual views To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj space wonderful reality You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj deep-thought know-yourself spiritual In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spirituality helping reality
